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ROOK WEEK 2025 ✧ ismeria mercar design commission by @alamangoes 🥭

first, thank you so much to @rookappreciationweek for organizing this event! 🤩

been super excited for this one because i had the absolute pleasure of finally commissioning a longtime fave filipino artist 💓 actually got this comm back a month ago and been sitting on it while i waited for rook week hahah

i knew forsure that i wanted to infuse ✨filipinality✨ into ismeria's aesthetic while still undeniably placing her in tevinter and giving her her own cunty waist belt. we focused on spanish colonial era fashion influences to parallel ismeria's lived experiences as both ancestrally dalish and culturally tevinter

for this look i initially asked stes for a pamalengke ("for the market"), something she wears when she's off the clock and just one of many in the crowd

even though she's hiding her ears here for imperial reasons tbh i'm so endeared by the headwrap 🥹

[gordon ramsey voice] finally some good fucking lighthouse casuals

if you've read don't get caught, this is what ismeria is wearing at the beginning of the fic 🙂‍↕️

i know everyone is in "casuals" in the lighthouse, but i honestly can't imagine ismeria dressing down too much. she's the leader, she has to command trust and respect, and no one is going to follow someone in pajamas to battle against gods (i also feel like she's just constantly ready to be attacked at the lighthouse/deal with fade chaos so she stays ready in something practical)

the pambahay ("for the house"): this is what she wears when she’s relaxing and can spend the day doing leisure activities like painting and journaling and being loved on by davrin 🥰

yes that top in the final version is sheer teehee

[alamangoes]

🌞 sunrise, sunset 🌞

[alamangoes]

when ur girlfriend tells u to come over so she can "rearrange ur guts" but ur a manananggal and she's a med student 💀✂️

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[Image Description: A drawing depicting a med student studying her manananggal girlfriend's intestines, which are laid out on layers of tarp and plastic sheets. The whole piece is in warm shades of yellow, orange, and brown.

The student has books, notes, and a box of used bloody gloves to her left. Her gloved right hand is placed on the thigh of the manananggal's detached lower body, with one leg casually crossed over each other. Intestines and stylized blood pour from the latter's pelvis, staining her jean shorts red.

The manananggal's upper body and wings rest against a pillow and a drawer. She is scowling and looking slightly peeved at her phone.  Next to her is a water bottle and a plate of street food, with an uneaten stick of dugo. /end ID]

[alamangoes]

selling sampaguitas

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[Image Description: A drawing of a woman selling garlands of sampaguita flowers, and a child reaching out to buy one. The woman has a yoke draped across one shoulder, like that of a food vendor. Attached to its ends are discs with several flower garlands hanging down, arranged like layered chandeliers. She is smiling down at the child, and holding up one garland to give away. Both are wearing baro't sayas in various shades of warm green, with large sheer balintawak sleeves. /end ID]

[alamangoes]

futuristic filipiniana!

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[Image Description: Three lineless drawings of people wearing dark blue clothes, on a dark indigo background.

1: A man in a large shirt , loose pants, holding a cane. On his head is a salakot with dangling beads. Cold blue light emanates from under the hat, obscuring his eyes, and from under his loose shirt as well.

2: A woman wearing a maria clara with a huge panuelo that wraps loosely around her shoulders. There is hot pink light coming from the inside of her panuelo and underneath her butterfly sleeves. Her skirt's stripes and the spokes of her bamboo fan are light blue.

3: A woman wearing a terno with a cropped top and long pencil skirt. Lavender lights emanate from the insides of her terno sleeves, under her top and skirt. Faint purple stripes run down both sides of her outfit. /end ID]

[alamangoes]

🔮 'di naman ako manghuhula

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[Image description: A drawing of a dimly lit scene: a woman sprawled across a table, leaning back on her elbow. She holds a glass to her lips, smiling slightly and staring up at another woman who is standing between her legs, back turned to the camera with a tense posture, gripping a bottle. A glowing, cracked crystal ball has rolled off its stand to rest by the first woman's elbow. The table is littered with candles in crystal glasses, small rabbit figurines, tarot cards, books, and a vase of moon orchids. The scene is colored with deep violets and blues, illuminated by the pink-orange glow from the crystal ball. /end ID] 

[alamangoes]

shet ang init 😤🔥

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[alamangoes]

you know those old phones/consoles with translucent casings so you could see the circuits and stuff inside? here's robot gfs in sheer barongs 🧡

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[Image Descriptions: Two robot girls facing each other with giddy smiles and heart-shaped eyes. The taller one has her arms draped over her girlfriend's shoulder, while the shorter one has a hand on her girlfriend's hip.

They are wearing barongs with bell sleeves, sheer enough to show various mechanical body parts and wirings in warm red, orange, and blue. Some of these mimic the shapes of bones or the striations of human muscles. They also wear salakots on their heads, with sheer casing underneath the hats. /end ID]